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Comparison With Other Work

In the literature one does not find veiling determinations in the J band for T Tauri stars. Greene & Meyer (1995) and Casali & Eiroa (1996), observed excess K emission in Young Stellar Objects from near infrared intermediate spectral resolution spectroscopy. They find that the observed sources are affected by veiling emission from hot dust. Greene & Lada (1996) discuss these results and find that rK depends on the SED Class; Class III sources have , Class II have and flat-spectrum sources have . These results were obtained by combining spectroscopic and photometric data, with the assumption that . The results from the observations presented here imply , which is high compared to the value estimated (for Class II) by Greene & Lada (1996). The assumption that is crucial for the determination of rK by those authors. If rJ has a mean value near 0.56, as we observe, then using equations 5 and 6 in Greene & Meyer (1995) one concludes that the mean rK is about 1.5, which is in tune with the measurements presented here, that give a mean rK of 1.3 with dispersion 0.9.



Daniel Folha
Fri Aug 28 11:53:21 BST 1998